twmn

A notification system for tiling window managers. twmn is two things:

twmnc: command line tool to send notifications to twmnd. You can also use notify-send for a similar purpose, but twmnc is more powerful. See twmnc --help for more information.

twmnd: daemon listening to notification requests and showing them one after another. Configure it at ~/.config/twmn/twmn.conf. The file is generated the first time twmnd is launched.

Notifications are shown in a one-line bar called the notification slide. They can be navigated through and activated with shortcuts.

See twmn.conf for more information.

About twmn.conf

<pre> [gui] ; Screen number to display notifications on when using a multi-head desktop. screen= ; 0 indexed screen number ; WARNING: Deprecated by "screen" ; Absolute position from the top-left corner of the slide. You may need it for a multi-screen setup. ; You still have to set position in order to choose the slide animation. If empty, twmnd will try ; to figure out where to display the slide according to your desktop size and the slide position. absolute_position= ; Supported format: WxH. Width and Height being integers. ; Background color. background_color=black ; RBG hex and keywords (eg. lightgray) are supported. ; An icon for the layout. Useful only for a layout file. icon= ; Path to image file. Optional. ; Font family. font=Sans ; Font size. font_size=13 ; In pixel. ; Font variation. ; accepted values are: ; oblique, italic, ultra-light, light, medium, semi-bold, bold, ultra-bold, heavy, ultra-condensed, ; extra-condensed, condensed, semi-condensed, semi-expanded, expanded, extra-expanded, ultra-expanded. font_variant=medium ; Text color. foreground_color=white ; RBG hex and keywords (eg. lightgray) are supported. ; Height of the slide bar. Useful to match your tiling window manager's bar. height=18 ; In pixel. ; Position of the notification slide. position=top_right ; Accepted values: top_right (tr), top_left (tl), bottom_right (br), ; bottom_left (bl), top_center (tc), bottom_center (bc), center (c). ; moves the position of the slide in +/- pixels on the x or y axis (e.g. "+50" or "-100") offset_x=+0 ; default is 0 offset_y=+0 ; default is 0 ; The animation to use when the slide appear in_animation=38 ; see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qeasingcurve.html#Type-enum for types ; The in animation's duration in_animation_duration=1000 ; in milliseconds ; The animation to use whe the slide is closing out_animation=13 ; The out animation's duration out_animation_duration=1000 ; in milliseconds ; Enable or disable notification bounce when changing notification bounce=true ; true or false ; Change bounce duration bounce_duration=500 ; in milliseconds ; If the character length is more then max_length the text is cut off and "..." is appended max_length = -1 ; default is -1 (which means: don't cut off) [icons] ; An icon. You can add as many as you want. NAME= ; Path to image file. NAME being the icon's custom name. [main] ; Program/command to be executed on notification activation. activate_command= ; Path to command. ; Time each notification remains visible. duration=3000 ; In millisecond. ; Host address to listen on for notifications. host=127.0.0.1 ; UDP port used for notifications. port=9797 ; Program/command to play sound with. sound_command= ; Path to command. Leave empty for no sound. </pre>

Installation

For Arch Linux users, twmn is on the AUR.

Otherwise you can install twmnd and twmnc manually:

1. install boost and qt if they weren't before, including the widgets and x11extras qt libraries
2. git clone https://github.com/sboli/twmn.git to get twmn
3. cd twmn/
4. qmake to generate a Makefile
5. make to compile
6. sudo make install to install twmnd and twmnc in /usr/local/bin. Make sure this folder is in your $PATH environment variable. (export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin)
7. for twmnd to be always running, add it to your .xinitrc, rc.conf or else

The storage_notifier example requires dbus-python to be installed. The mpd_notifier example requires python-mpd to be installed and running.